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Cake day: October 3rd, 2023

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  • You’re welcome! Well it’s more complicated than that, and I’ll be honest I don’t THOROUGHLY understand everything about it.

    But the idea is to move the liquid from one canister to the other, that’s why the “giving” canister is upside down. But because you’re moving the liquid itself, you can accidentally fill the entire canister with liquid, no room for the vapor to expand into when it gets warm, and boom! So be careful. As long as you weigh it you’ll be safe 👍 You freeze the receiving can because cold gas has a lower vapor pressure. And you can put the giving can in a bowl of warm (not hot!) water to increase it’s pressure and make the transfer happen faster. You’ll feel the giving can get cold as you fill the bottom can.

    Fun fact, this is how air conditioners work! Take any gas (preferably not flammable, but that exists too), decompress it in a pipe so it boils into a vapor and absorbs a bunch of heat, making the pipe cold and you can blow air over it to cool your house or fridge.

    Then that boiled gas vapor goes into a compressor that increases the pressure in a second pipe, enough that the gas has no choice but to condense into a liquid again. This releases all the heat that was captured in the boiling phase. Now you’ve got a hot pipe, and you put it outside and blow air over it to cool it off, further liquifying it. Then you take the liquid and release it back into the low pressure boiling pipe inside and start the process all over again!



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    A special adapter from Amazon, like $20.

    Be sure to refill by weight. Buy a full screw top canister and weigh it with a kitchen scale, note the weight in grams, write it on the can and in your phone.

    Then later, when it’s empty, put it in the freezer for several minutes, pull it out and refill it with the other canister, but only fill it to the weight it was originally at. It will gladly take more gas, but there will be less headroom or no headroom, and the canister has a high chance of exploding.

    The Internet will tell you not to do it, and how unsafe it is, how the valves aren’t meant for that many uses, and it’s definitely gonna explode etc etc. But if you do it smart, you’re fine. And don’t reuse the same screw canister many many times, you’re already saving money, reuse it a few times then recycle it and start over.

    Edit: this is the one I bought, it’ll do the trick. https://a.co/d/eHJDQGL

    Also NEVER EVER EVER refill them with any amount of propane! Yes the normal canisters come with a percent of propane in them to help in cold weather. But getting the partial pressure mixture right is almost impossible at home, and propane will definitely make your canister explode. It’s vapor pressure is too high. That’s why the pure butane canisters are so thin, and the green pure propane canisters are so thick and heavy, because they need to be to hold back the pressure.









  • Some people like tinkering. Big Clive has a series of videos on Dubai led bulbs. The government mandates that the bulbs be extra efficient and last extra long, so they are built with more filaments driven at a lower current. They run cooler and last longer. You can do a similar thing with American bulbs if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

    Honestly, with how poor many of these things are mass produced, opening them up yourself is practically a personal form of quality control. Whether you modify it or not I bet it’s less likely to die prematurely or burn your house down than those of a regular person who doesn’t open them 🤷‍♂️





  • That’s pretty much how we do it, but with a phev and an SUV. On days we both work she takes the phev, I the SUV. When one of us is going somewhere we take the phev. But if it’s snowing or we want to haul kayaks or load up heavy to go camping, the SUV.

    The phev is "hers"and the SUV “mine”. But only vaguely 🤷‍♂️ we don’t actually care that much. But also it’s not a free for all. She would probably be a little miffed if I just randomly took the phev to work forcing her into the SUV. But if we talked about it first she’d probably be fine 🤷‍♂️







  • Random guy here, stumbled onto this thread.

    I can only drink decaf, doctors orders. My wife doesn’t drink more than a cup a day usually, caffeinated.

    We have a breville espresso machine, got it during COVID because we were home so much.

    We made coffee every day, sometimes several times a day. But now that we’re more or less back to normal, we’re not home often enough to use it regularly. Perhaps once a week.

    We still love fancy coffee, just not enough to get up a bit earlier to make it, and take it with us, and then clean the thermos later. Bah.

    So we go through a pound or so every few months. It’s actually a bit annoying because the coffee gets less fresh as the weeks go on.

    As for what coffee we buy? We buy local, there’s a roaster near our house, which always smells amazing when you drive by. Their coffee is fine, quite tasty even, it just all kind of tastes similar, if that makes sense. Even if I go for some fancy flavors, which I’m guilty of doing (in a separate special grinder), they all taste very similar in base flavor. Maybe people like that 🤷‍♂️ it’s fine.

    Our favorite coffee is schuil in Grand rapids Michigan, super tasty, and their flavors are phenomenal (if you like that kind of thing).

    Edit: beans are about $9-11/lb here in Michigan.